Prosperity
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Quotes about w:prosperity:
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- ...abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity...
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1719
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- "Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean."
- "Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity."
- "Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity."
- "The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity is a necessary element to the security, and even to the existence, of a civilized people."
- "Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
- "Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity."
- "We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment."
- "He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity."
- "Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear."
- "Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man."
- "It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in."
- "Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies."
- "They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar."
- "Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your being one in adversity."
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- Klopsch, Louis, 1852-1910 (1896). Many Thoughts of Many Minds.

